Comparison · Holiday APIs for LATAM

feriados.io vs Calendarific

Both return holiday data. The difference is what you can do with it: Calendarific gives you a list of holidays. feriados.io gives you a list of holidays plus the endpoints to calculate business days, add deadlines, and count working days per country.

The core difference

Calendarific is a holiday data API — it tells you what days are holidays in 230+ countries. feriados.io is a business calendar engine — it tells you what days are holidays, and also calculates deadlines, counts business days between dates, and validates payment dates. If your use case requires date arithmetic (payroll, SLAs, delivery dates, billing cycles), Calendarific requires you to build that logic yourself on top of their data.

Feature comparison

Feature feriados.io Calendarific
Holiday data by country ✓ ✓
Free plan with commercial use Calendarific free requires attribution ✓ ✗
Free tier requests/month 1,000 500
Add N business days to a date Not available in Calendarific ✓ ✗
Subtract N business days Not available in Calendarific ✓ ✗
Count business days between dates Not available in Calendarific ✓ ✗
Last business day of the month Not available in Calendarific ✓ ✗
Validate if a date is a business day Not available in Calendarific ✓ ✗
Chile irrenunciable flag in response feriados.io-specific field ✓ ✗
Colombia Ley Emiliani (shifted dates) ✓ ✓
Mexico floating Monday rule ✓ ✓
Argentina decree puentes (near real-time) Calendarific update frequency varies ✓ Partial
Decree alerts via webhook ✓ Business ✗
Live iCal subscription URL ✓ Team+ ✗
LATAM countries covered 11 11+
Global countries covered Calendarific has broader global coverage 11 230+

Pricing comparison

Calendarific pricing from their public pricing page. feriados.io pricing as of 2026.

Tier feriados.io Calendarific
Free $0 · 1,000 req/mo · commercial use included $0 · 500 req/mo · attribution required
Entry paid $9/mo · 25,000 req/mo · all operational endpoints $12/mo · 10,000 req/mo · holiday data only
Mid tier $19/mo · 100,000 req/mo + live iCal $41.67/mo · 50,000 req/mo
Annual savings From $79/yr (Starter) From $100/yr (Starter)

When to choose each

Choose feriados.io if:
  • ✓ You need to add or subtract business days (delivery dates, payment deadlines, SLAs)
  • ✓ You're building for Latin America specifically
  • ✓ Your app processes payments, payroll, or logistics in LATAM
  • ✓ You need to know if a specific date is a business day before running logic
  • ✓ You want decree alerts when Argentina adds a new puente
  • ✓ You need the Chile irrenunciable distinction in your HR or payroll system
Choose Calendarific if:
  • → You need holiday data for countries outside Latin America
  • → You only need to display a list of holidays — no date arithmetic
  • → You're building a calendar UI that just shows holidays visually
  • → You need holiday data in multiple languages for a global product
  • → You need state or region-level holidays across many countries

What you'd have to build yourself with Calendarific

Calendarific returns holiday lists. If you need to add 5 business days to a date in Colombia, you'd need to fetch the holidays, implement the Ley Emiliani logic, and build the date arithmetic yourself. feriados.io does it in one call.

With Calendarific — you build this
// 1. Fetch holidays from Calendarific
const holidays = await calendarific.holidays({
  country: "CO", year: 2026
});

// 2. Implement Ley Emiliani shift logic yourself
const shifted = applyLeyEmiliani(holidays); // ← you write this

// 3. Implement business day counter yourself
function addBusinessDays(date, days, holidays) {
  // ← you write this too
}

// 4. Finally get your answer
const result = addBusinessDays(startDate, 5, shifted);
With feriados.io — one request
// One API call — done
const res = await fetch(
  "https://api.feriados.io/v1/CO" +
  "/business-days/add" +
  "?date=2026-01-07&days=5",
  { headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${KEY}`
  }}
);

const { data } = await res.json();
// data.result_date → "2026-01-14"
// (skipping Reyes Magos on Jan 12)

Try feriados.io free

Free plan includes 1,000 requests/month with commercial use — no attribution required. Operational endpoints from $9/mo.

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